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    Sustainable Data Management for the Solar Decathlon
    (2019-02-08) Cossard, Patricia Kosco; Durden, David; Molyneaux-Francis, Michael
    University of Maryland Libraries are taking the lead in archiving and curating data sets for the UMD Solar Decathlon Team Maryland (2002, 2005, 2007, 2011, 2017 and Solar Decathlon Europe 2019). A 2017 report from the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL), Insights on Technology Innovation - A Review of the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Competition Entries 2002-2015 (Simon, 2017) found that over time, the technologies developed, demonstrated and perfected for the competition series have become more commonplace in industry. While more than 500 books, thesis, reports and articles have been written about the individual competitions in its sixteen years of existence, to date there has been no systematic archiving of the research, scholarly and creative work created by these competitions. Patricia Cossard and David Durden (DSS) are working with the U.S. Department of Energy (all competition deliverables/documents have recently been transferred from NREL to DOE with no developed maintenance plan), the OECD's International Energy Agency (the Solar Decathlon Knowledge Base (SDKB), and Team Maryland to develop a data management standard and best practices for international dissemination to all teams and agencies, past, present and future.
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    Import [Include/Exclude] Export: Using free systematic review tool Rayyan for database comparison study
    (2019-03) Ritchie, Stephanie; Banyas, Kelly; Sevin, Carol
    Many methods to analyze database content and performance have been used and share one common challenge – How to manage the large volume of data needed to accurately assess databases. As part of an ongoing project to compare databases that provide agricultural research literature, our research team collected data to analyze the retrieved content of eight research literature databases. We worked with a new, free application designed to assist teams with systematic reviews. Rayyan QCRI allows teams of researchers to include/exclude citations collected during research literature retrieval based on pre-set criteria. Our team re-purposed Rayyan as a tool for reviewing search result citations for precision and recall analysis.
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    Endangered Data Week: How University Libraries Can Get Involved
    (2018-07-26) Koivisto, Joseph
    Endangered Data Week is a national initiative started to raise awareness of threats to public research data from institutes such as NASA, NOAA, and more. But how can you get your campus involved? In this session, you’ll learn about Endangered Data Week topics and brainstorm ideas for how you can participate in 2019.
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    Research Data Management: Practical Strategies for Information Professionals edited by Joyce M. Ray
    (Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, 2014-03-31) Nilsen, Karl
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    The Position of Library-Based Data Services: What Funding Data Can Tell Us
    (2013) Nilsen, Karl; Dasler, Robin; Muñoz, Trevor; Hovde, Sarah
    As academic research libraries develop services to support data management and curation, understanding the demand from researchers for new services and establishing parameters for pilot projects are key challenges for managers. Data about proposals and awards for research funding provide evidence about the potential scale, scope, and institutional location of research and data production. Information obtained from funding data can complement and contextualize insights obtained directly from individual researchers about their data management needs. This poster reports on an analysis of funding data conducted by librarians at the University of Maryland, College Park. The authors aimed to discover what funding data can tell librarians about the demand for data management support and the potential challenges for library-based services. The authors also sought to understand the limitations of funding data as a source of information.
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    A new reality for academic chemistry librarians: An interview with Grace Baysinger
    (American Chemical Society, Division of Chemical Information, 2011) Baykoucheva, Svetla